in ~/.vimrc add :set cc=80 to highlight 80th line
in the terminal grep -n '^.\\{81,\\}$' <file> prints line numbers of those over 80 chars
sed -i 's/\\s\\+$//' <file> removes all trailing white space
printf("This is a "
"test of defining strings "
"over multiple lines.");
printf("The backslash character \\
needs to be put at the end \\
and the strings must start at column 0.");